The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards-setting body for the Internet, has announced a new specification designed to enable multimedia presentations on mobile phones.

The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.1 (SMIL 2.1) specification, published Tuesday, is designed to allow authors to easily write interactive multimedia presentations, W3C said. The specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), provides enhanced visual layout capabilities such as background image tiling, and enhanced audio layout capabilities, including fade-in and fade-out, according to the standards body.

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